Pack-bag for delicate instruments such as telephones.



C. A. SUPER, JR; PACK BAG FCR DELICATE INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS TELEPHONES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.2.19|5.

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CHARLES A. SOPER, JR., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHICAGO WHOLESALE SADDLERY & MFG. CO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 191'?.

Application led December 2, 1915. Serial No. 64,780.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. Sorce, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pack-Bags for Delicate Instruments Such as Telephones, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a pack bag for carrying 16 parts of delicate mechanism, such as the parts of a telephone subscribers set, from place to place without subjecting the same to the breakage which has heretofore occurred in transporting such devices from place to place.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind which can be easily made, which retains the parts of instruments to be carried in compact space in such man- 20 ner that breakage cannot readily take place.

The invention consists in a device for carrying out the foregoing objects, and one having the special features and details of construction hereafter set forth.

In the drawings, in which similar numerals indicate the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a side, and Fig. 2 an end view of a bag of this invention folded up ready to be carried.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bag open and ready to receive the goods to be packed.

Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is the same sectional view as Fig. 4, showing three articles to be -packed in position with the packing cloths between them.

In carrying out this invention, any suitable retaining sack having a bottom 10 and four side walls 11, 12, 13 and 14 is provided, made of suitable size in proportion to the particular device to be packed; in the particular case here illustrated, a telephone subscribers set..

The particular bag here illustrated is made of ordinary heavy canvas, but other materials may be used without departing from the invention.

In the center of the bag, and extending upward from the bottom, are a plurality of soft acking cloths of canvas, commonly called duck, 16 and 18. In the particular case here illustrated, these are made of' one piece of cloth folded in the middle and secured to the bottom 10 o-f the bag along the line 20.

These packing cloths 16 and 1S are made of such a size that when boxes y22 and 24: of the telephone set or other artic-les to be 6o packed, are placed inside the bag, the upper portions of the members 16 and 1S extend horizontally over and more or less around them, as shown in Fig. 5, and thus protect them one from the other, while providing a soft packing for the telephone instrument 26, or other article to be packed, laid in between these packing cloths and the boxes, as shown in the drawings, or on top of them, as desired. -E

The upper edges of the side members 11, 12, 13 and 14. of the bag are preferably designed to fold in, as shown, to close the bag, the same being held in place by straps 28 and 30 secured to the end of the bag at 31 by tubular rivets or other suitable fasteners. These riveted ends also serve to protect the closed package from rough usage as the goods are handled by expressmen and others. These straps, when buckled together, serve as a carrying device or handle.

Obviously, a diderent closure device may be provided without departing from this in` vention, and, of course, more than one article may be placed in the space over the memf 1tbers 16 and 18 and below the closure memers.

By securing the packing cloth or duck members to the bag they cannot be forgotten or intentionally thrown away by a careless workman using the device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new andmdesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the class described, comprising a bag member adapted to receive three or more articles, a plurality of flexible packing cloths secured to the bottom of the bag at a point intermediate between two articles to be packed placed on the bottom of the bag and adapted to be spread, one over the top of each such article to be packed, whereby said articles are separated from each other and from one or more other articles to be packed placed between or on top of said packing cloths after they are in place over the rst two articles to be packed.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a bag member adapted to receive three or more articles, a plurality of flexible 11o packing cloths secured to the bottom of the bag at a point intermediate between two articles to be packed placed on the bottom of the bag and adapted to be spread, one over the top of each such article to be packed, whereby said articles are separated from each other and from one or more other articles to be packed placed between or on top of said packing cloths after they are inl place over the rst two articles to be packed, this in combination with means for closing the bag.

3. A device of the class described, comprising a bag member adapted to receive three or more articles, a plurality of flexible packing cloths secured to the bot-tom of the bag at a point intermediate between two articles to be packed placed on the bottom of the bag and adapted to be spread, one over wthe top of each such article to be packed,

whereby said articles are separated from each other and from one or more other arti cles to be packed placed between or on top of said packing .cloths after they are in place over the first two articles to be packed, this in combination with covering devices for closing the bag, together with strap-s attached to opposite ends of the bag adapted to be secured together over the top of the bag to fasten the entire device together.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. SOPER, JR.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, M. S. RosnNzwnIG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

